By Madalina Iacob

The debate about paid content is gaining ground in Europe too. Springer, the publisher of the largest European daily, Bild, is comtemplating to charge for content, according to a New York Times article. “The meta-philosophy of free — we should get rid of this philosophy,” said Christoph Keese, Springer’s head of public affairs and an architect of its online strategy. “A highly industrialized world cannot survive on rumors. It needs quality journalism, and that costs money.”